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Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2014

The
continuing slowness of economic growth in high-income economies has
prompted soul-searching among economists. They have looked to weak
demand, rising inequality, Chinese competition, over-regulation,
inadequate infrastructure and an exhaustion of new technological ideas
as possible culprits.

An additional explanation of slow growth is now receiving attention, however. It is the persistence and expectation of peace.

Donnerstag, 24. Juli 2014

“Leaning over a map of eastern
Ukraine on his desk, Gennady Korban gripped a ballpoint pen and drew a
squiggling blue line down its center. The border, he said, marked the
battlefront in his country’s war with pro-Russia separatists. One side
was stable, rid of ‘troublemakers,’ he said. On the other are
‘maniacs,’ he said. … He called the border ‘Kolomoisky’s line’—after his
billionaire boss, who is emerging as one of the more unlikely
protagonists to emerge from Ukraine’s fight for survival. When its
high-profile conflict with Russia began, the fledgling government in
Kiev was caught flat-footed, with an army with little fighting
experience or funding. Enter Ihor Kolomoisky, a 51-year-old outspoken
banking tycoon. Now recently appointed by the country’s president as
governor of Dnipropetrovsk region in eastern Ukraine, he has decided to
dip into his fortune to bolster that army and defend the homeland. So
far, that has included buying tires, car batteries and fuel for army
units, as well outfitting local militias. He also announced a program
to buy up contraband weapons and offer a $10,000 bounty for any
pro-Russia militant captured with a gun. … Mr. Kolomoisky declined to
say how much he is spending personally to build up what his aides call
the ‘Kolomoisky army,’ but experts estimate it is about $10 million a
month just to fund the salaries of militia and police units, some of
whom technically report to Ukraine’s army and interior ministry.”

So far I have seen nothing, that could be considered substantial evidence for one of the possible crash causes. But I see a overwhelming hysteria and a blame game totally out of control. And it is a shame that western politicans like Kerry and the media have nothing more to offer then stiring up this hysteria. And the question is: Why are they doing it?

KABOOM!

Über mich

"Stable order is always provisional and
threatened by complexity. We should finally start thinking that we all
live on the edge of chaos. For this reason, if they were truly digested,
the theories of complexity and chaos could change our way of seeing
what happens in our cultures.They lead us to mistrust all the
totalising and totalitarian conceptions which have the pretension of
telling us with certainty what the world will be like and which
therefore supply us with the instruments to dominate as we may please –
or to help us submit to those who, in their opinion, will dominate us.
Living on the edge of chaos is also an aesthetic choice: the acceptance of living joyously with the unpredictable,
the new and the unknown. Rather than being simply the humiliation of
our arrogance, it is the renunciation of the imaginary "regular income"
of determinism and the transformation of our uncertainties into a
genuine wealth to help us to survive."

Keeling Kurve

Dynastic Cycle

Institute of Computergraphics TU Wien

Hierachy of Complexity

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Roessler Attraktor

"Real economics is the study of how people transform nature to meet their needs," said Charles Hall, professor of systems ecology at SUNY-ESF and organizer of both gatherings in Syracuse. "Neoclassical economics is inconsistent with the laws of thermodynamics."